Pork Taste of Elegance Winner Again

Chuck Zimmerman

Let’s go from chicken to pork now. Here’s Joseph Royer who just won the 2007 Taste of Elegance contest sponsored by the Pork Checkoff. Joseph Royer, executive chef at the Saturn Grill in Oklahoma City, won top honors in the 18th annual national Taste of Elegance contest May 7 in San Diego, Calif. The competition, sponsored by the Pork Checkoff, …

Ag Groups, Food

47th National Chicken Cooking Contest is Inspiring

Chuck Zimmerman

Birmingham, AL was the place to be for the 47th National Chicken Cooking Contest. A “spectacular” dish combining boneless chicken breasts with jasmine rice, shredded coconut and a crunchy Thai-style slaw took first place and the grand prize of $100,000 in the 47th National Chicken Cooking Contest here Friday. Michelle Anderson, a training analyst from Eagle, Idaho, created the dish …

Ag Groups, Food

Demanding Fruits & Vegetables

Chuck Zimmerman

Actually the produce isn’t demanding but the Produce For Better Health Foundation wants you to demand more of them. And now BASF is helping them out by partnering up. It’s part of their support for the fruit and vegeatable industry. As part of this partnership, BASF recently committed to a five-year $100,000 sponsorship to help fund the foundation’s research. BASF …

Ag Groups, Agribusiness, Food

In The Coffee Zone

Chuck Zimmerman

Before hitting the road today I had to stop in for a meeting at my favorite coffee shop in Jefferson City. Taisir Yanis has some of the best brews you’re going to find at his place, Coffee Zone. This post is actually a demo for the person I’m meeting with since it’s the best way I know to show someone …

Food

Pam’s Selling Her Hams

Chuck Zimmerman

No. This is not about the hams on Pam but the hams that Pam sells. It’s Pams-hams. According to her website, she’s the retired marketing director of Honeybaked in Michigan. So in her retirement she’s still selling hams. This time for herself. You’ve got to love that spirit and how the web allows us to do things that years ago …

Food

Beef in Boston

Chuck Zimmerman

Here’s Kelly Dietrich, Dan Conner both Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative, Matthew Peebles, national beef ambassador and Jean O’Toole, NEBPI serving up some beef at this year’s Boston Marathon. They also did a survey of people who came to the booth. The results to the question “Do you feel beef is part of a healthy diet?” 88 out of 91 people …

Ag Groups, Beef, Food

Fast Food and Frequently

Chuck Zimmerman

I’m assuming that with all the talk in America about obesity and research like the following that it’s only a matter of time until we have a law saying getting fat it illegal. I can even see somebody thinking we should outlaw fast food places or some such stupid thing. Maybe it’s already in the works. I hope people will …

Food

Search For America’s Worst Cook

Chuck Zimmerman

Forward this to the person you love but just can’t bring yourself to tell them how you really feel about their cooking. If you feel like a misfit when it comes to cooking, you are not alone. According to a new survey from the American Egg Board, nearly half of America’s home cooks (44 percent) experience an all-out disaster in …

Ag Groups, Food

Happy Easter From ZimmComm

Chuck Zimmerman

Happy Easter from ZimmComm New Media. I was looking for a nice image to use for this post and thought of an Easter basket standard – the Cadbury Creme (or caramel) Egg. So, while you’re enjoying one of these you might want to shoot a little YouTube action and upload and enter it for a chance to win some money. …

Food

Center For Food Integrity Launched

Chuck Zimmerman

A new organization has been launched to increase consumer trust in our food supply. The Center For Food Integrity is actually a combination of two existing projects and has a lot of organizational backing. The Center for Food Integrity is a combination of The Grow America Project and Best Food Nation, two national initiatives established in 2006 to increase public …

Ag Groups, Food